Transcripts For KNTV Today In The Bay 20240712

Its starting to move again. Well look at the maps. The yield is there was a crash in the same area where theres a construction crew. We are already down to one lane, just the right lane that a deadly crash happened about 1 00 in the morning. Sounds like almost all that crash activity is over and is out of lanes. Theres a little distraction for more flashing lights and then that Construction Zone and we hear about a late pickup for north 880. West 580 is a great alternate. If you stick it out, allow yourself another ten minutes. Back to you. Good to know. Thank you, mike. Showdown on the future of the Supreme Court this morning begins on capitol hill. The New York Times calls nominee Amy Coney Barrett a member of conservatisms new guard. A live look this morning at the capitol where a short time from now she plans to deliver her Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary committee. Today in the bays tracie potts joins us live in washington, d. C. , to break down what to expect as this process gets under way. Good morning, tracie. Reporter laura, good morning. Its getting under way in less than an hour, although we wont hear from the judge until later in the day after democrats and republicans make their statements. We have seen her Opening Statement in written form. Shes expected to talk about her family, her background, her views on the law but not her religious views and some of the hot button issues democrats say theyll ask her about this week. Thank you very much. Reporter in her Opening Statement judge Amy Coney Barrett says a judge must apply the law as written not as the judge wishes it were, even if that means they dont like the result. Lawmakers plan to question her on the Affordable Care act. The Supreme Court hears that case one week after the election. She has been on assignment to the Supreme Court by President Trump, and we know what that assignment is eliminate the Affordable Care act. Reporter democrats are asking the Justice Department for whats missing from her application, a 2006 letter opposing womens reproductive rights. A vote for judge barrett is very simple. Its a vote to take Health Care Away from 20 million americans. Its a vote to strip protections. Reporter judge barrett is expected to attend in person at least four will appear virtually. One tested positive. Others, including Vice President ial nominee kamala harris, are concerned about the lack of precautions. Weve managed to have hearings for months in a way that has been safe and has protected everyones safety. The delay tactics of the democrats arent going to work. Reporter President Trump is back on the campaign trail with a rally in florida declaring himself covid free. Yes, and not only that, it seems like im immune. Reporter the president has been cleared by his doctor who did not say if the president tested negative for the virus. But he has a pretty Aggressive Campaign schedule coming up. Florida today, pennsylvania tomorrow, iowa on wednesday, and his team says he will be on the road pretty much every day between now and election day. Laura . A very busy time in washington. Thanks for keeping up on it, tracie. Bay area activists opposed to the nomination plan to rally later today. Organizers plan to gather at noon outsenator Dianne Feinsteins San Francisco office to demand the hearings be halted. They Want Congress to wait until next year until after the election when a new congress convenes. Were tracking the confirmation hearings from start to finish. Nbc news will provide a special report when the hearings get under way which should be in less than an hour. Well bring that to you live as soon as it begins. All right. So here is a twist on the three rs when it comes to bay area elementary schools. Reading, writing, reopening. This is a very big morning. They may not even know where their backpacks are. We havent seen them since march, sharon. Reporter so true, kris. Probably taking longer to get ready this morning especially for prek through first graders. Instead of zoom calls theyll be heading to campus due to lower numbers. They voted on having students head back to class with social distancing measures in place. With the students sitting six feet apart. Teachers and parents objected. The district is moving forward with prek through first starting today and then two weeks later second and third graders, fourth and fifth in november, middle schoolers and High School Students wont head back until january. Now this all comes as california has seen a dip in covid19 positivity rates. Other School Districts such as alameda have been allowed to reopen but districts are Still Deciding how to implement those plans. They have not seen any connection between reopening schools and a rise in covid19 cases. Reporting live in palo alto, im sharon katsuda, today in the bay. Thank you, sharon. 5 05. Two vallejo teachers are on administrative leave this morning after a viral recording seemed to capture them criticizing students. The pair at jesse bethel high didnt realize their microphones were still on following a virtual class. At times explicit words were used. Were not airing that, but here is a portion of the recording. Its so frustrating to, like, know that these kids are technically illiterate and theyre like [ inaudible ] i cant turn it in. And im like, you didnt turn it in. I cant unsubmit it. You didnt submit it. I cant unsubmit it. You didnt submit it. The district interim superintendent released a statement saying the district plans to evaluate policies and procedures for online instruction and regrets if any students were offended. Theres been some submission problems at our house, too. Developing right now, a lot of Unanswered Questions this morning after a driver plowed into an Outdoor Dining area in san jose critically injuring two people. The video shows the chaos just after that happened yesterday afternoon at an Outdoor Dining area in the grand century mall. Authorities say a 69yearold man accidentally hit the gas on his suv which then plowed into the diners injuring eight people sitting at several different tables. Witnesses tried to yell to customers to get out of the way but the car was moving too fast. The back wheels started spinning and smoke started coming out. What is he doing . He jumped the lane. The driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Witnesses say he was despondent offwards. They believe he may have suffered a medical emergency. Indoor dining could return to santa clara county. In just a matter of days. Right now, like most of the bay area, its still in the red tier. The county could move into the orange tier as soon as tomorrow. If that happens more businesses and activities will be able to reopen. Indoor dining would be capped to 25 or 100 people whichever is lower similar to what San Francisco is doing now. In the next 24 hours we should get a better idea if parts of the bay area will suffer through another power shutoff this week because of high fire danger. Pg e says that if the conditions materialize large sections of some of its Service Areas may feel the impact but others in the north bay hills, most of the impacted hills will be east and north of the bay area. And temperatures creeping back up. A little taste of fall. Did you get your Pumpkin Spice latte . Yes, every day. I think since the beginning of september probably. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, were going to have to deal with more of that heat so maybe an iced coffee. We always have a clockwise wind flow. When that sets off the coast we have winds that will start to blow offshore starting on wednesday especially and increasing as we head into the next several days to the end of the week. Now with that we also will have a high fire danger and it will be high for the north bay hills in the bay area and then also moderate for the east bay hills. So with that descending air moving in, very low humidity and high winds along with the hot temperatures. We will have to watch out for the potential of any quickly spreading fire. Ill be tracking that. Lets head over to mike for an update on the morning commute. The Speed Sensors say things are Getting Better but the live camera does not. Bogging down for the nimitz. Oakland, northbound 880 youre jammed up past high street. As we look at our sensors, going up to 29th, overnight construction has not picked up yet. Chp got an advisory theyre going to take a little while longer on the map. You see the red still sticking around. West 580 is your alternate. There was a deadly crash in the same area sadly. It has cleared and the activity clears from lanes. The rest of the bay moves very well on the freeways. Back to you. 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Call or go online today. Comcast business. Good monday morning. Right now at 5 13 to the south bay with a look at our temperature trend. Well start out with cool temperatures, upper 50s and a warmer afternoon as we reach up to 76 at noon and 80 at 1 00. Now we are going to have a big heatup this week. Ill talk about that and our fire danger coming up in a few minimum. Kari, ill start off in the south bay where story and king, major intersection just off two freeways on the map, that intersection is closed for police activity. A homicide there. Were following that story. The freeways, however, in the south bay and the rest are all right except for oakland circling that on the nimitz northbound still jammed up for overnight road work. Good morning. A very happy monday to you as well. Of course youre awake in the first place, its columbus day. The stock market will be open. The bond market is closed for the federal holiday. No mail. The markets looking fairly flat at the open because the stimulus talks have broken down. The white house had propose add compromise the democrats said was not enough. Republicans said was too much. The president of the United States on the radio over the weekend pushing that stimulus compromise even though he said it helps states he doesnt approve of. I want to give stimulus money. I believe in stimulus. I do. It wasnt the peoples fault and i want to give stimulus even if it helps some of the states and badly run blue states, democrat states. This week about the oil giant chevrons warning to the state of california it may have to lay off thousands of workers. The san ramonbased company could cut as much as 15 of its employees. And the worlds most valuable company, apple, has a virtu virual event tomorrow where it will introduce 5g phones. Morgan stanley calls it the most significant in years. It may include something called the iphone mini which cnbc is predicting will be the size of an iphone 6 which happens to be the one that i have which i never thought was particularly small. I think people have a way too big phone. They pull it out of their purse and its like an ipad. Its a big bonus. Or cargo shorts. You know how we feel. Theres lauras phone. Can you hear me now . Can you hear me now . Get her an iphone mini. Need big pants for this big phone. All right. Trending this morning guardian of the galaxy star has mastered a new skill. Take a look. Yes he posted solving a rubix cube in under a minute. What else have we been doing . It has more than 3 million views. Unfortunately, he still needs more practice to beat the world record which is just four seconds, laura. Four seconds. Thats ridiculous. I cant even pick it up in four seconds. I can get two sides. Thats about my limit. I can peel off all the stickers. If you feel like youve reached a breaking point during the pandemic sheltering at home you are not by yourself. A lot of poem geople gettin frustrated. People needing a break less than 30 days into shir shelter in place orders. 80 have reached what point, a to escape. Nearly half needed a change of scenery. 25 say theyve needed some alone time. I think weve all faced it in different ways at different times but certainly put me more in touch with nature and my children who i see all the time. Yes, we are very close. Very tight. But getting outside is going to be rough for the end of the week, kari. Yeah, especially during the afternoon. Head outside early when it feels nice and now as we take a live look outside checking out dublin and our camera there, wow, a lot of people are heading to work so it may not be a day off. Were going to see still some unhealthy air quality. As you dri out throughout the day running errands, make sure you turn the air conditioning to recirculate. It will be more unhealthy as we see more of the smoke coming in due to a northerly wind for the east bay and much of the north bay. Were going to see moderate air quality elsewhere but check out our temperatures as we take it hour by hour. Were starting out cool but then at lunch time if youre planning to head outside it will make it into the upper 70s still comfortable with low 80s in parts of the east bay but then as we go into later today some 90s on the map here from parts of the inland east bay to the far north bay but mostly some 70s and 80s for today. Then going into this evening here we are at 7 00 and were seeing spots at 73 degrees. Oakland, 71. Upper 60s in San Francisco and low 70s in novato. For tomorrow well be not as cool as this morning as that warming trend gets under way. Were looking at quite a bit of cloud and rains to the Pacific Northwest but look at how dry it is here and usually during the month of october we start to see some rain but it is not in the forecast. Were going to get hot and our northerly winds will pick up heading into the middle of the week causing a high fire danger and the potential of a psps for the north today in the bay the end of the week as our temperatures go up as well. Were going to see those breezy winds and look at how hot its going to be. I was hoping we were done with this. Here we are back in the mid90s by the end of the week. Mike, youve been tracking a traffic alert. Now thats over, right . Well, yeah. The alert part is over but the backup is still there. The other alert, though, kari, in the south bay. Were looking at the freeway that looks fine for silicon valley. San jose police gave us an update saying that portions of story and king where they meet are still closed because of an investigation. Following the crime that happened over there, a shooting. Note two major roadways, a lot g in the area. The rest of your drive is just fine except for the nimitz as we look here north 880 approaching 29th, the Construction Zone, down to one lane. The live look shows you the traffic is very slow on the approach and as they clear the lanes closer to 6 00 things will really bog down for a bit. Back to you. Good to know. Thanks so much, mike. Up next on today in the bay nbc bay area responds. Reporter a power surge knocks out their air conditioning. When they asked for the Power Company to help out they were surprised by its answer. Im consumer investigator chris chmura. Nbc bay area responds next. And i am one proud niece this morning. My aunt sanchez just recognized with a Lifetime Achievement board from the Colorado Association for bilingual education. Shes a former National Teacher of the year, too. It is just so special for us as a family and especially special because its hispanic heritage month. You can follow us on instagram, facebook and on twitter. Thanks for letting me humble brag. Youre watching today in the bay. Participates of southwest louisiana still only starting the long process of cleaning up after hurricane delta tore through the region. At least one death is now being tied to the storm with fears the number may rise. Nearly half a Million People across the southeast are without power. The storm made landfall near many of the same areas hit hard by hurricane laura last month. One couple who own a restaurant have had a run of tough luck. Just rebuilt after laura. Just finished. The restaurant was open for the last two weekends. Can you imagine . Some areas of louisiana under several feet of water with a lot of downed tres and power lines. 5 25 now. New details in a deadly shooting of a rightwing demonstrator by a Security Guard which was all captured on camera in denver on saturday. It happened during protests between rival groups and in the video the victim could be seen spraying mace at that guard before that guard then fired. A local agency now says of the suspect who was hired by the nbc didnt have a record. That suspect is being held without bail. A concord family says pg e caused their air conditioning to malfunction. So they asked consumer investigator chris chmura and his team to help them get a refund. Reporter good morning. The goffman family says pg e cut power while crews cleaned up a nearby car crash. When the lights came back on, they say thats when the problem started. The power surge caused our air conditioning to malfunction. We sent a claim in to pg e and they denied the claim shortly after. E, we regret we are unable to reimburse you for your damages. They say the power coming back on caused the damage and that was within pg es control. So they turned to us. We reached out to pg e. After some back and forth it agreed to reimburse 325. Thats what they paid to fix the ac. We asked pg e for comment. They only told us we reached out to mr. Gokhman and the issue has been resolved. Pg e recommends you protect equipment such as televisions and computers protectors and unplug if it was in use when the power went out. Back to you. Thanks so much. Coming up next, the top stories were following on today in the bay. Were about half an hour away from Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett. More on the fight going on in the senate. And more on decision 2020 as well. A lot of folks have already voted and theres been a huge response in Contra Costa County. Plus, changing columbus day to Indigenous People day. The city now making that change and the backlash. Right now at 5 30 happening today for the first time san jose joins San Francisco and oakland in celebrating Indigenous Peoples day instead of columbus day. Up next, why some argue that it is still worth remembering Christopher Columbus legacy. Plus, voting bonanza. Were live with a look at voter turnout in Contra Costa County over the weekend and a look at potential looming problems. And just a little excited down in l. A. The lakers winning their 17th nba title. Next the overnight celebrations seemingly ignoring Health Orders and the party that will not be happening this year regardless of the win. Today in the bay continues right now. Thanks for joining us. Im kris sanchez in for marcus washington. Good to have you, kris. Lets check in with mike and the morning commute. Lets talk about the temperatures. Are they going to go back up, kari . Yeah. We had a nice, cool weekend, but now as the new workweek starts, were back on a warming trend and so were going to see some 90s today for parts of the east bay but mostly upper 80s with san jose reaching 85 degrees and some upper 60s for San Francisco. But were going to feel some 80s in oakland. Well talk more about this and a look ahead to high fire danger, what im watching for this workweek. Mike, youve been watching the commute. Whats going on right now . The nimitz is still the problem right now, kari. The nasty nimitz, the nickname. Not because of overnight road work. Northbound at 29th, things have changed. The backup built and the map shows you things over near 29th are getting easier for those Speed Sensors. I think were starting to see the crews move earlier than 6 00. Big rigs have been allowed for westbound 580 because of the backup and an earlier crash which bogged things down. Now we see free throw month with slowing. Well talk about that coming up. Back to you. Thank you, mike. In just about 30 minimum or so the Senate Judiciary committee will begin confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett. Republicans say they are confident that they have the votes to have her confirmed by election day but democrats say the proceedings should be postponed because of the spread of coronavirus on capitol hill. Experts say judge barretts criticism of the courts 2012 ruling on obamacare and her conservative views on abortion will both be hot topics. We are tracking the confirmation hearings of the Supreme Court nominee from start to finish. Nbc news will provide a special report when the hearings get under way which, again, we expect to happen in about 30 minutes. Well bring that to you live as soon as it begins. Decision 2020 and the surge in early voters across america is already unprecedented for this president ial election. More than 9 million americans have already voted. Today in the bays bob redell joins us live in san ramon. Contra costa county is one place thats already experiencing that big surge in voters. Reporter correct, laura. Some people are dropping off their ballots at these boxes. We had two people just pull up here in the Early Morning hours of monday morning. More are mailing them in. We spoke with the Contra Costa County registrar of Voters Office and said as of friday nearly have been returned, almost 10 of the vocounty. Typically by this time in another general election they would have expected between 200 and 500 ballots. Theyre already at 70,000 so you get a sense of how great the interest is in this election. Yesterday a voter did find the door to the ballot dropoff box unlocked in danville and partially open as you can see in the photo. Inside was a bin of ballots. The Deputy Registrar of voters tells us his office had just been at that site, that was an mistake. He doesnt believe anyone tampered with the ballots. I inspected the box. It had about 100 ballots in it that were deposited when it wasnt secured. Im very upset. Its disturbing to see a ballot box left unlocked. This is what were all worried about. Reporter if you deposited your ballot in that box between 11 00 and 1 00 yesterday and have any concerns, you can track your ballot online. Its worth noting yesterdays ballot box incident comes amid increased scrutiny of the mailin ballot process but despite claims of fraud by the president of the United States no evidence to indicate that any has occurred. Reporting live in san ramon, bob redell, today in the bay. Thanks so much, bob. Its 5 35 right now. A new warning about illegal and unofficial ballot boxes popping up. The Orange County registrar reports unofficial ballot boxes are being set up outside local Republican Party offices. Idate churches in the central valley, in fresno. You can only drop off your ballot at authorized locations. We have a list of official ballot boxes on nbcbayarea. Com. Breaking news in the south bay right now, also at 5 35, a deadly shooting is shutting down busy roads in san jose. This happened about 2 00 this morning at story and king roads near the 101 680 interchange. San jose police tweeting about the shooting saying the victim is an adult man. There is no suspect description at this point. This is the 33rd homicide in san jose for 2020 and no word yet on when the roadways will be open again. San jose is celebrating its first Indigenous Peoples day after a vote last week. Last week mayor sam liccardo and the city council declared a proclamation. It follows many other cities like berkeley that already changed their celebration date from columbus day to Indigenous Peoples day. Its happening as a lot of activists are calling for statues of Christopher Columbus be removed. One statue near coit tower was removed earlier this year. Not everybody is happy with that decision. The Vice President of the Italian American Heritage Foundation is holding a zoom call. Ken believes its purely political and says he cant believe the holiday was changed during a pandemic when a larger discussion could not happen. Some good news in the north bay. Most all of the evacuation orders and warnings now lifted from the glass fire. Now more than 90 contained after destroying more than 600 homes and damaging numerous wineries in napa and sonoma county. Leaders in the north bay have their eyes helping the homeless make it in the bay. Sonoma county leaders are looking to transform a hotel into Affordable Housing for the homeless. The county has now received nearly 11 million from the state to buy hotel azura located on college and mendocino avenues in santa rosa. The goal is to curb homelessness during the pandemic. Several neighbors have tried to block the sale of the hotel and now have a case pending with the state. Similar programs are already moving forward in other cities like san jose, milpitas and pittsburg. Well, the city of angels may be a little sleepy this morning. They partied late into the night as the team won its first nba championship in ten years. Its got to be so hard, though. Were not supposed to be gathering. You can see a lot of folks who were celebrating were gathered near the staples center. Theyre not really adhering to that advice to keep social distance. Not a lot of masks there in the crowd either. Police do say that things were mostly calm. As for the game it wasnt much of a contest. The lakers led by more than 30 points for a lot of it winning 10693. Had lebron james winning series mvp as they won four games to two. As for that traditional victory parade its already been called off this year because of the pandemic. Thats a bummer. You pull off an extraordinary win like that and you cant celebrate. I mean, they did it celebrate. Cant have the parade. At least its a team used to winning so its not like its a onceinalifetime team, right, kari . Right. Absolutely. Congratulations to them. Now lets check out our forecast as we start out this morning with some upper 40s in napa. It is a chilly start for you. Wed better take it in because we do have some heat coming our way. Ive also been watching the forecast as you get ready to head out the door. Maybe a light jacket need this had morning if youre in fremont and as we go into today still maybe needing that jacket throughout much of the morning. Later today it will be warmer. Well talk about that and the fire danger. Not really unexpected but maybe worse than you would think about for oakland on a monday. Its a holiday but we have slowing 680 northbound, the Construction Zone started clearing a few minutes ago. We see that up to 84. Your commute direction is lighter because, as we said, its a holiday for many. Ill talk about that closure in the south bay. Police activity and homicide. Almost all lanes closed north 880. You see at the top of the screen youre jammed to high street. Overnight road work and an earlier crash around 29th. Back to you. Coming up on today in the bay a closer look at the Supreme Court nominee and the idea of court packing. And a bay area tradition returns this morning. The annual Half Moon Bay pumpkin weighoff. A live report on some of the major changes this year. Give you my world how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way go your own way your wireless. Your rules. Only with xfinity mobile. Serena its my 9 12, nodaysoff migraine medicine. Its ubrelvy. For anytime, anywhere migraine strikes without worrying if its too late, or where i am. One dose can quickly stop migraine in its tracks within two hours. Unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks cgrp protein, believed to be a cause of migraine. Do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. Most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. Serena ask about ubrelvy. The anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. It is 5 4 3. Were enjoying the last little bit of cool weather for the next several days as our temperatures this morning start out in the mid50s. Well be at 80 degrees at 1 00 this afternoon. Well get even hotter as the week goes along. Ill talk more on that in the forecast in a few minutes. And three spots to watch despite holiday traffic flowing. Oakland is jammed up now from the coliseum all the way up to about high street. And a crash that happened overnight and then slowing southbound, this crash may be blocking one of your middle lanes. North 680. Well track it all coming up. Sounds good. Thanks so much, mike. New details, sadly, on a tragic boating accident death for a family out on lake tahoe. Firefighters say a mother drowned on friday night while swimming near zephyr cove. The woman jumped from a boat with six children onboard. The father then jumped in with a life vest to try to save her as the boat floated to the middle of the lake. Rescuers later pulled him alive from the water but he did suffer from hypothermia. 5 44. Hearings to confirm President Trumps nominee on the Supreme Court get under way this morning. Kamala harris will be one of the senators questioning judge Amy Coney Barrett. Thats right. It would no doubt be a smart strategy for the other democrats on the Judicial Committee to let her take center stage for her party in the nomination process. Harris is well remembered for her tough questioning of brett kavanaugh. Harris is a former prosecutor, former state attorney general. She is good at crossexamination. Coney barretts nomination a fo foregone conclusion. They say they will never prejudge a case and cant comment on whatever hypothetical the senators dream up. Harris could ask her a great deal about the white house event on september 26th. The one dr. Fauci is now calling a super spreader event. Why did she not wear a mask . Why did her family not wear a mask . Does she feel any personal responsibility to protect white house staff . One of the terms you will hear as we talk about the Supreme Court is called court packing. A viewer asked us to explain what that is. The republicans are pushing this nomination through very close to the election. Something they said they would never do in the past. If Coney Barrett is approved. However, the constitution is very vague about the idea of the Supreme Court. It basically just says Congress Needs to set one up but never says how many judges should sit on the Supreme Court. Its nine right now. Theres no rule and if democrats won the white house and the senate they could appoint more judges and realign the court. Now that would be a huge violation of tradition but would not be unconstitutional. Biden for his part has not said one way or the other what he would do saying he will have to wait until after the election to find out whether he will pack the court. We want them to tell us what theyre going to do. You may have seen this ad during the Football Games on sunday. Dr. Fauci appears to be praising the action fighting coronavirus. President trump tackled the virus headon as leaders should. I cant imagine that anybody could be doing more. Well get through this together. He says that was taken out of context. He was talking about federal Health Workers and, quote,my nearly five decades of Public Service i have never publicly endorsed any political candidate. Were watching what will happen with the nominee, of course. This morning a special report around 6 00 a. M. Coming up soon and were tweeting about it. Youll find me on twitt twitter scottmcgrew. Thank you, scott. Make sure your vote counts this november. Its not just the president ial election. We have a lot of local issues to decide as well. Join us tomorrow for our special decision 2020 california votes. Well cover everything from how to vote and the safety of your mailin ballot as well as what all those propositions mean. 7 00 in the evening right after nbc bay area news at 6 00. The bay area tradition returns today. Account big, famous pumpkin weighoff at Half Moon Bay. This year no spectators, kris. Good news. Cierra johnson did get full access so we can see the giant pumpkins behind you. This is a first for you. What do you think . Reporter i can barely keep a little plant in my kitchen alive. This is really cool. As we all know were in the midst of a pandemic but that did not squash the event here as you mentioned. Things are a little different. The weighin is still taking place but there wont be any spectators. We have a couple pumpkins here to preview the entries. Looking at the plate looks like this is from washington. A huge pumpkin there. Really amazing to look at. Now we do have some video of what this event looked like last year. Now the annual weighin would typically look like this. Farmers from across the bay area and the state would gather to have them weighed. This year its a little different. The goal is still the same. Safeway is offering the top prize of 7 per pound for the winner. Thats a lot of money. Also at stake thousands for the top 20 and the huge prize of 30,000 for a new record entered at half moon were talking last years winner weighed in at more than 2,100 pounds. So that is a lot. Growing in to drop off pumpkins to get weighed starting in a couple hours. A lot of excitement here, hoping they come in for a lot of money. Secret ways to do it, too. How they make them grow so large. Its fascinating. Im with you. I couldnt grow a single zucchini this year. We do know who has a green thumb, meteorologist kari hall. Kari, could you grow Something Like that in your garden . No, definitely not. That takes some special skill right there. Im not that good. Although we havent had any rain to help out our gardens, and so were now looking at more hot weather in the forecast. Were checking out all the headlines rolling in across 580 and we are going to have to deal with air quality with a northerly wind. That means as you ride to work or are out running errands today, turn the air conditioning on recirculate so its not bringing in this unhealthy air quality and the smoke that were seeing outside. We will have a heatup in our forecast and that will be of major concern. It does start with our temperatures at lunch time. Hopefully in the mid70s and low 80s. Not that warm today but we will start to see a few spots like concord as well as over toward livermore reaching 90 degrees. This evening if you want to head out with cooler temperatures, well have some 70s around sunset and back into the 50s and 60s for tonight. All dry here but still a pretty active storm track to the north of us as we see clouds and rain moving into the Pacific Northwest. Its going to force an offshore wind which means a high fire danger. And that will be something were watching from wednesday through friday. Ill have more update on that in a few minute. Mike, how is it looking now for the commute . Some slowdowns but i have to speed it up and fulfill some promises. Talking about the maps, overall things are looking pretty standard. A lighter volume of traffic because of a holiday flow. The problem spots are tough for south 880. The crash, sounds like people were Walking Around in the freeway. Watch out as you approach that scene. Road work here causing a problem in oakland because of the jam. Youre down to one lane at most right now as they start to move crews. West 580 your alternate. Back to you. Thank you, mike. We are super excitemented because happening now two americans win the nobel prize in economics. Milgrom and wilson improve how auctions work and designed for goods and services hard to sell like radio frequency. Several other bay area professors and scientists have been awarded nobel prizes and they found out in a very interesting way. Well tell you about that later on in the newscast. A lot of scholars here in the bay area. Much more ahead on today in the bay this monday morning including this adorable little puppy. Lighting up the internet. The alist celeb it can call mommy. Speaking of alisters guess who will be stepping into the world of cleopatra, the egyptian queen brought to life by elizabeth taylor. Next the details and backlash as well. Youre watching today in the bay. Oscar the grouch here to tell you, yeah, you, to wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. 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One of new york citys most Iconic Hotels is closing. The Roosevelt Hotel released a statement saying its going under because of the financial losses of the pandemic. The hotel opened in 1924 and was named after former president theodore roosevelt. It is featured in major movies. The doors will close for good at the end of the month. The fires here in california are also leaving animals struggling to find new homes. A new pair of Mountain Lion cubs are taking refuge in the bay area. Thats right. Theyre getting pretty good care there. The oakland zoo caring for the two who were or fanned in the zogg fire from shasta county. They plan to introduce them to the public later today. They are so cute. You think thats cute, look at this, Jennifer Aniston showing off her new adopted puppy. His name, lord chesterfield. He fell asleep with a treat in his mouth there. Got worn out playing. Aniston got the pup from the pet hotel and spa which rescues and also is a doggie hotel. And speaking of alisters guess which queen is making a comeback. A classic film now on its way to a 21st century reboot. Elizabeth taylor captured audiences with her portrayal back in the 1960s and now it sounds like wonderwoman will take over the role. Gal gadot says its never been seen before and she will team up with wonderwoman director patti jenkins. Not everybody is happy about it. Some dont like gadot, an israeli playing the egyptian queen. Some scholars say she had greek and perhaps persian ancestry as well. What an makes. My goodness. Well, quickly6 00 now and as monday morning. Happening any minute now on capitol hill the Supreme Court nomination hearing will begin for judge Amy Coney Barrett. This is a live look right now at the site. Were expecting a special report from nbc news at any moment now. And good morning, everyone. We are coming on the air to bring you live coverage of the Senate Confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, the president s nominee to secede Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the u. S. Supreme court. This of course comes at an extraordinary moment for our country in the grip of the pandemic and 22 days away from election day. We are taking you inside a look at that hearing room where weve seen Amy Coney Barretts children, her husband, family members